What is CVE-2022-38778?

CVE-2022-38778 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Decode-Uri-Component Project, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-02-08.

How severe is CVE-2022-38778?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Decode-Uri-Component Project

CVE-2022-38778

A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2023-02-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Decode-Uri-Component Project
Elastic Kibana — versions Versions 7.0.0 through 7.17.8 and 8.0.0 through 8.6.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.elastic.co/community/security (Vendor Advisory)
discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-38778?: CVE-2022-38778 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Decode-Uri-Component Project, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-02-08.
How severe is CVE-2022-38778?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.